NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

ARCTIC HEAT. Eskimos are frequently seen sweat- < ing Under a powerful sun. The general idea of Eskimos and all inhabitants of the Arctic Circle is that they live in conditions of eternal winter. Mr Stefanssouj/the Arctic explorer, has Ibcen telling a Cambridge auu;ence that the wildflowers of the Arqiip aa;e exquisite, and* Very few Eskimos have ever seen a snow house—or hearjd ji u.vd ex>y^t : at' school! •' MODERN BABES 'IN THE WOOD. -The nicidern counterpart of* tlije babes in the wood has been discovered near Piombino' A man was passing . through the wpods 1 the*re j wjijen ' he heard ffieeble cries' 'like those• of;; a baby. He followed' the direction, of the sou'nds, and in a small clearing came upon a hut of branches and leaves, near which' were tliireo little children, two of them girls, the largest of wlioin, agetl 5, held in lnir arms another, barely eighteen months' old. They had been left thcio- by homeless and penniless parents. CAUGHT IN MID-ATR.. ’Missing his footing while he . was working pif a ! scaffolding 75 fdet above ' ground' at* Hull Corporation electrici r - 'station/-‘Frederick Clark, 4.1, .of Manchester : Square,' New Holland, ••Lincdihsh'irb, fell off a plank .dn * which he was standing. Fifteen feet r lower ’down, however, his fall was artested; by a steel girder on which he beoamie balanced. When-' lie Had. been lowbred to the 1 ground by . a crane .lie was’ found -to have received nothing worse thaVi a few cuts He went home little the worse for his hairbreadth eschpe from death. < .. , l i. ,'j ,